[Promotion Closed] Promotion: Tell us your Certification Story

Would you like to renew your existing certification, move up a level in your particular track or get certified in a new track? Then let us help you! Take part in our “Tell us about why you became Juniper Certified” story promotion and receive either a 100% off voucher for a certification exam ortwo hours of virtual lab time. This will help you on your way to obtaining another Juniper Certification. Simply follow the steps below.

Here’s what you need to do to submit your story:

If you’re not a member of J-Net you’ll need to register for a free user account in order to post your story, so take that first step now. To complete the registration process sign in to J-Net after registration and pick a user ID. Be sure to check out the General Training and Certification Forum board for conversations about certification.

Reply to this article with your story. Tell us about yourself, why you became certified and why you want to renew or obtain another certification. Your stories must be 100 words or more to be eligible.

We will contact you upon submission of your story via J-Net private message to provide you with either the exam voucher or lab time.

*No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. Entrants must have one or more Juniper certifications to be eligible. Story submission ends at midnight PT on September 30, 2010. Limit one entry per person. Promotion is open to persons over the age of 18 that are invited to participate by Juniper Networks. Limit one (1) voucher per eligible respondent per eligible certification exam or two (2) hours of free virtual lab time per eligible respondent. Supply of vouchers and lab time is limited. Vouchers will be awarded in the sole discretion of Juniper Networks based on determination of eligibility and availability of vouchers. Vouchers and lab time are not transferable without express written consent of Juniper Networks and may not be redeemed for cash or substituted for other goods or services. Juniper Networks reserves the right to modify or cancel this promotion at any time without notice.

I have just heard this topic from my friend. I hope it's not so late.I'm Jang from Singapore and I have 3 years experience in IT industry. Now I'm an IT of a bank in Singapore, my roles are monitoring and analysing security devices. In my company, we are using 02 Juniper firewalls, 02 Fortinet firewalls and 02 Checkpoint firewall in order to protect our data center.Of course we are very pleased with the Juniper equipment. Beside using them as firewalls, we run VPN SSL on them. So I concluded: "Juniper= robust + safe".

I'm holding JNCIA-JUNOS certificate and I want to pass JNCIS-SEC certificate as soon as possible.

Hi my name is Afzaal zulfiqar and I am doing a job as network support engineer in engineering company there are many certified engineer and they have Cisco certification and Microsoft certification But I am only Microsoft certified and I want knowledge of Juniper network know and here is a great chance to become Juniper certified. I heard about juniper that juniper product have very much strong application and easy to configure am sure this certification is proud for me and I would be a valuable person in network field please give me a great chance I will be very thank full to you

I am doing a job in Qadrigroup as network administrator I am Cisco CCNA Certified Microsoft MCP MCTS MCITP Certified and JNCIA JNCIS Certified I use the cisco product and juniper product I found a big difference between them Juniper have a very strong operating system and easy to configure and I believe if juniper management open some academy and training center in different country this would be very much help full to promote the very well product I have a advice to you please come in my country and give us an opportunity to work with a great work at the end I just want to say that I love juniper

I am working as network engineer and have almost 4 years of experience, have come across several vendors but Juniper is emerging as a strong contender to all larger maret share holders. I have worked on Juniper E-series routers which is quite a strong product, with very good OS features & configuring options. I got Junos certified first last year with fast track certification program, which I got know about through my social network, unfortunately I got know about it in the last few days so I could just give one associate certification, this year I gave all the certs available. I now want to get certified in E-series routing platform and then move up consistently to the top of i.e. JNCIE in the E series track, this is because I know Juniper is working aggressively towards generating a greater market share and will have a very strong presence in the market very soon.

I'm Steven, IT Manager of PVID Gas in Singapore. We have selected Juniper equipment solutions for our new systems; including routers, switches and firewalls.Previously I worked for a SI company as a network engineer, so I did not hesitate when selecting the contractors offered Juniper solutions for this new system that I remind above.I believe that all equipments will work well.

In last year I passed JNCIA-Junos and now I want to get a free voucher in order to reach JNCIS-SP or JNCIS-ENT certificates and upper level in the future.

I am working as a network security engineer since almost 2 years, have different security certifications & attained juniper security certification through fast track promotion. I have configured many firewalls but juniper netscreen is a powerful firewall with very good features, also the OS configuration is very easy, in the network security field juniper is nailing down with its strength, I want to develop my expertise on Juniper firewalls and security products. With the present approach Juniper will capture the market sooner with good equipment & lower price against other competitors are positive towards Juniper I want to go towards JNCIS-FWV & JNCIS-SSL.

I am working as a network security engineer since almost 2 years, have different security certifications & attained juniper security certification through fast track promotion. I have configured many firewalls but juniper netscreen is a powerful firewall with very good features, also the OS configuration is very easy, in the network security field juniper is nailing down with its strength, I want to develop my expertise on Juniper firewalls and security products. With the present approach Juniper will capture the market sooner with good equipment & lower price against other competitors are positive towards Juniper I want to go towards JNCIS-FWV & JNCIS-SSL.

Appologies for my last comment! I extremely sorry but that was a mistake! I hope you understand! my story is as below

I am working as a network operations engineer, in an ISP, where we are having different a heterogeneous network with having equipment from different vendors to make up our network. During my tenure of almost 3 years experience I have worked on almost on all routers from different vendors, may it be where I work or a short term project, I do not know about switches or security portfolio of juniper, but the routing platform is one of the strongest. I got JNCIS-ER through fast track promo and now I look forward towards JNCIE in Service Provider & E series track.

I have been working as a network administrator since 2005, have worked in different environments & managed different data centers. Have had a good experience with juniper switches and routers and after working on them and getting certified on routers, I have got more interest in studying them and getting more hands-on on them. I got JNCIS-ER through fast track program but unfortunately I got to know about it in the last days of the promotion so I could not get JNCIA-EX certified, now I want to achieve JNCIA-EX and have more hands-on on Juniper switches, I hope juniper introduces specialist level in switching track as well.

I am working as systems security consultant, and now want to start concentrating over network security as well. I have done penetration testing of several networks and secured the same networks, Juniper firewalls are much easier to configure than other firewalls and I recommend them to all my clients.. I many relevant security certifications but I got Juniper’s certification after the introduction of fast track promotion, I have JNCIS-SEC and I want to have JNCIS-FVW. I have found Juniper with a pretty different approach in the technology as well as marketing. I see Juniper as a next big giant in IT.

Working as a trainee engineer in core networks dept., The first certification I got in my life was Juniper till date I am certified in all Juniper fast track exams, which I am sure will be tremendously helpful in my professional career, and which have helped me with getting a very good understanding of the networks, and for future I plan to work & get expertise on Juniper products, because I started out my career working on Juniper and getting certified in Juniper I look forward to stick to Juniper for the rest of my career since it has made me love it! I want to work towards expert level certifications in service provider track.

Douglas Richard Hanks Jr. is a Director of Product Management with Juniper Networks and focuses on solution architecture. He is certified with Juniper Networks as JNCIE-ENT #213 and JNCIE-SP #875.
Douglas’ interests are network engineering and architecture for enterprise and service provider technologies. He is the author of the Juniper MX Series book by O'Reilly Media and several Day One books published by Juniper Networks Books. Douglas is also the co-founder of the Bay Area Juniper Users Group (BAJUG).
Douglas can be reached on Twitter @douglashanksjr.

Hiroaki Kato is a Senior Director of Systems Engineering at Juniper Networks and is responsible for managing the Systems Engineering organization in Japan.
Before he joined Juniper Networks, Kato served as Japan Country Manager for Red Bend Software. Kato was responsible for overall business operation of Red Bend Software Japan K.K and grew the business in Japan further in mobile and into other industries. Prior to Red Bend, he was with Avaya Japan Ltd. During his time at Avaya Japan, the roles he took include overall operation of Avaya Japan as its Representative Director, Director of Solutions and Engineering and number of other leadership roles in strategy creation and business development. He also spent time at Avaya’s headquarters in New Jersey, USA, working as strategy and operations prime for one of the Avaya’s business units as well as some leadership role for global sales operations organization. Prior to Avaya, he served as the Unit Manager of Telecommunication Infrastructure Business Unit of Mitsubishi Corporation’s Information Systems and Services Group, providing carrier grade telephony systems and associated support to major telecom carriers in Japan. He also served as a board member of MC Techno-Serve Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation which provided post sales maintenance of the carrier grade telephony systems Mitsubishi Corporation sold.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Tokyo University and EMOT at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lisa Lorenzin is a Principal Solutions Architect with Juniper Networks, specializing in security and mobility solutions, and a contributing member of Trusted Network Connect, a work group of the Trusted Computing Group that defines an open architecture and standards for endpoint integrity and network security. She has worked in a variety of Internet-related roles since 1994, with more than a decade of that focused on network and information security, and is currently concentrating on enterprise security including network segmentation, end-to-end identity-based access control, and integration of mobile security.